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Hannah M. Jones index
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-11-018
Scope and Content note
This collection is comprised of three volumes of an index created by Hannah M. Jones, given to her aunt, Mary Ann Jones. The indexes include the deaths and marriages of Quakers, copied from The Friend, and arranged alphabetically.
Dates:
1827-1914
Rebecca Jones letterbook
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-02-011
Abstract
Rebecca Jones's letterbook includes her personal correspondence with Leonard Snowdon. Letters describe meetings Jones attended, discussions of the abolition of slavery, and news of friends and family. Included in the volume is a brief account of Jones's convincement.
Dates:
1797-1805
Rufus M. Jones papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1130
Abstract
Rufus Matthew Jones (1863-1948) was a Quaker historian, mystic, and philosopher. Born in South China, Maine, to Edwin and Mary Gifford Hoxie Jones, he taught philosophy at Haverford College between 1893 and 1934, and was involved in the Haverford Emergency Unit, American Friends Service, and Fellowship of Reconciliation, and is often attributed as having helped to unite Yearly Meetings in the United States. The collection consists of Rufus Jones’ correspondence, diaries, financial papers,...
Dates:
1779 - 1999; Majority of material found within 1875 - 1952
Samuel Jones papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-108
Abstract
This collection is comprised of two items of Samuel Jones's papers, and includes a copy of his will, as well as a copy of an emancipation document for a family enslaved by Jones.
Dates:
1820, 1833
Joseph Sturge Mission School Opening and Friends' Freedmen's Relief Association Funds Request
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-280
Abstract
This collection contains a leaflet regarding the opening of Joseph Sturge's First Day School at the Friends Locust St. Mission House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 1st, 1865. The school was established as First Day school for poor African Americans and immigrants. The school later merged and formed the Benezet House Association to provide education and relief to African Americans. Lack of demanding and funding led to the school's demolishment in 1945. There is also a letter from...
Dates:
December 1862 and September 1874
"The Friends Mission in Japan 1885-1947"
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-055
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of the single volume of Tetsuko Kawahara's master's thesis, entitled "The Friends Mission in Japan: 1885-1947." The thesis was for the Graduate School of International Affairs at the University of Tsukuba. The manuscript features chapters on: Quakerism and Foreign Mission, the Friends Mission in Japan: the beginning 1885-1900, Social Orientation of Quakerism in a Changing World, and the Friends Mission in Japan: the Transformation 1900-1947.
Dates:
1981
Leonard Stout Kenworthy diary
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-039
Abstract
Leonard Stout Kenworthy's "Quaker Berlin Diary" describes his experiences in Germany during World War II working with German Quakers to assist unaffiliated German Jews to leave Germany.
Dates:
1940-1941
Kite Family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1111.5
Abstract
Members of the Kite family and others discuss 19th century Quaker issues, family, and attending Meeting.
Dates:
1820-1879
"A Brief Account of Thomas Kite"
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-057
Abstract
The biographical account of Thomas Kite describes Kite's early life, his convincement (conversion to Quakerism), and his testimonies against Elias Hicks during the Hicksite-Orthodox separation.
Dates:
Undated.
Leeds and Maule family genealogy
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-10-004
Scope and Contents
This collection is composed of one original book and a set of photocopied indices. The book is handwritten, and along with the genealogy includes many glued in photos, newspaper obituaries, and several genealogies or family trees of Leeds families. The set of indices is presented as an index for the family genealogy, and was compiled in 1947 by Morris Leeds.
Dates:
1947, undated
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